At my wife's college, they use (First initial)+(Middle Initial)+(Last Name)+(last four SSN + last four student #)...
so you end up will WHGates6666... of course, at my previous school, your student # *was* your SSN... This seems to work fairly well, but I wonder why they bother with adding the ssn if they already have a (nearly) unique student#... there aren't very many people with the same name that would get the same last four digits (being that there are far less than 10k students there at a time)...
You mean it can't scramble an egg while it is still inside it's shell, while folding up to fit under a bed, does ten times the work with no effort, and you can just set it and forget it for just 4... no THREE! easy payments of $29.95?
So is it a webpage bug when you see: "Pentium Prozessor" and "Pentium Porcessors" in the writeup... [rant] This is the same kind of sloppy work that causes cars to explode, missiles to veer off course, and a busload of nuns to get blown up by a rogue robot (Nun Soup?) [/rant]
I know a fair amount of people that fill up when they get anywhere near 1/3->1/4 of a tank remaining, and even those of us who wait longer tend to refill before or around the time the warning light/bell (if equipped) comes on (usually 2-3 gallons on most vehicles), so a more realistic "average" for a 12 gallon tank would be 6-8 (this is not a strict time average, of course), and when you include Ford Exploders and Chevy Subdivisions (my grandfather's old Suburban had a 40 Gal tank - but he actually used it for towing a large trailer cross-country, not just for groceries), you would probably see that average go up even more... 10 gal is probably high, but not altogether unreasonable...
and that, of course, doesn't mean that the "empty" space in a gas tank isn't filled with the more dangerous gas vapors... a less full tank can explode quite a bit more violently.
There are several places in the US where CNG vehicles are becoming increasingly common - notably the busses and other work vehicles for the NY/NJ crossings. I have driven a full-sized pickup truck and a passenger sedan that were converted to CNG, and they feel and sound like a standard gas engine (because most of the engine is identical). They do smell a lot better, though. There aren't tons of places to get/fuel these cars, but it is a nice first step towards a cleaner alternative.
Hydrogen works, too - it is also not toxic, and is no more dangerous to inhale than helium... there isn't much reason to try it, but hey, it could be fun...
It is probably hidden in the 12th page of a 16 page click-through registration agreement... so they may think they asked them...
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True, I along with a few friend who had ordered with the low price up there all received an e-mail certificate for $30 off an online order (with some restrictions)...
is that this "legal copy software" will probably be one of the most illegally copied software titles (via Kazaa, etc) in the near future... if it isn't already.
Just listen to the rhythm of the bandwidth rain...
Nothing I've used has come close in 2-D quality and performance to the Matrox cards I've owned (Millennium, G200, G400)... In fact, the 4MB PCI Millennium that I got in 1996 easily outpaced the TNT2 cards from several years later in 2D performance, and the quality difference was staggering. The Geforce2MX400 that I have is great for games, but my Matrox G400 is superbly sharp in the high res modes - it *is* tough to accurately drive an older 21" monitor with no ghosting, waving, and good color definition.
Though one would think that if one were to only worry about email, IM, and the web, one wouldn't need to pay for a Mac instead of a e-machines cheapo box... I would hope most Mac users actually *do* something with their machines.
Um... if you have a record, and hang around with people who continue to violate the law, you are just being dumb and asking for trouble... and probably deserve what you get.
For all they can tell, a dog or cat walked across the keyboard and accepted the EULA... how binding is that... my dog isn't even 18 yrs old in dog years (11 weeks old today... almost 4-1/2 pounds). I think the click-through licenses have some minor issues;-)
Well, sure, if you use *those*... but isn't that considered cheating? We won't all have to wear matching jumpsuits if we get these new storage cubes, will we?
IBM will still do a ton of R&D, since new advances in the storage arena lead to patents, which lead to licensing, which is a big part of IBMs portfolio... The tech development will still exist, just not the product devel and manufacturing (at least, not directly).
For single processor applications, the Athlon can keep pace in many tasks with the POWER-IV, but the Athlon can't match the internal bandwidth of the POWER IV nodes (4/8 proc cores on a module, higher L2 and memory bandwidth, etc). That does, of course, show up in that price tag:-) The other advantage is (as you mentioned) the larger SMP ability of the POWER systems as compared with the Atlhons, but hey - you really need some work to keep 24 nodes of 32 procs each busy.... Fun!.
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At my wife's college, they use (First initial)+(Middle Initial)+(Last Name)+(last four SSN + last four student #)...
so you end up will WHGates6666... of course, at my previous school, your student # *was* your SSN... This seems to work fairly well, but I wonder why they bother with adding the ssn if they already have a (nearly) unique student#... there aren't very many people with the same name that would get the same last four digits (being that there are far less than 10k students there at a time)...
Yup, and studies have shown that even just scrubbing your hands under running water (without soap) dramatically reduces the bacteria count...
Maybe 'telnet money' is just an alias/shell script, and the IP addresses are all in reverse endian...
You mean it can't scramble an egg while it is still inside it's shell, while folding up to fit under a bed, does ten times the work with no effort, and you can just set it and forget it for just 4... no THREE! easy payments of $29.95?
I feel taken.
So is it a webpage bug when you see:
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"Pentium Prozessor" and "Pentium Porcessors" in the writeup... [rant] This is the same kind of sloppy work that causes cars to explode, missiles to veer off course, and a busload of nuns to get blown up by a rogue robot (Nun Soup?) [/rant]
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I know a fair amount of people that fill up when they get anywhere near 1/3->1/4 of a tank remaining, and even those of us who wait longer tend to refill before or around the time the warning light/bell (if equipped) comes on (usually 2-3 gallons on most vehicles), so a more realistic "average" for a 12 gallon tank would be 6-8 (this is not a strict time average, of course), and when you include Ford Exploders and Chevy Subdivisions (my grandfather's old Suburban had a 40 Gal tank - but he actually used it for towing a large trailer cross-country, not just for groceries), you would probably see that average go up even more... 10 gal is probably high, but not altogether unreasonable...
and that, of course, doesn't mean that the "empty" space in a gas tank isn't filled with the more dangerous gas vapors... a less full tank can explode quite a bit more violently.
There are several places in the US where CNG vehicles are becoming increasingly common - notably the busses and other work vehicles for the NY/NJ crossings. I have driven a full-sized pickup truck and a passenger sedan that were converted to CNG, and they feel and sound like a standard gas engine (because most of the engine is identical). They do smell a lot better, though. There aren't tons of places to get/fuel these cars, but it is a nice first step towards a cleaner alternative.
Hydrogen works, too - it is also not toxic, and is no more dangerous to inhale than helium... there isn't much reason to try it, but hey, it could be fun...
Heck, you can re-use the old fry oil in engines - Frio-Diesel!
It is probably hidden in the 12th page of a 16 page click-through registration agreement... so they may think they asked them...
True, I along with a few friend who had ordered with the low price up there all received an e-mail certificate for $30 off an online order (with some restrictions)...
is that this "legal copy software" will probably be one of the most illegally copied software titles (via Kazaa, etc) in the near future... if it isn't already.
Just listen to the rhythm of the bandwidth rain...
Nothing I've used has come close in 2-D quality and performance to the Matrox cards I've owned (Millennium, G200, G400)... In fact, the 4MB PCI Millennium that I got in 1996 easily outpaced the TNT2 cards from several years later in 2D performance, and the quality difference was staggering. The Geforce2MX400 that I have is great for games, but my Matrox G400 is superbly sharp in the high res modes - it *is* tough to accurately drive an older 21" monitor with no ghosting, waving, and good color definition.
Though one would think that if one were to only worry about email, IM, and the web, one wouldn't need to pay for a Mac instead of a e-machines cheapo box... I would hope most Mac users actually *do* something with their machines.
Or something more like this.
Um... if you have a record, and hang around with people who continue to violate the law, you are just being dumb and asking for trouble... and probably deserve what you get.
For all they can tell, a dog or cat walked across the keyboard and accepted the EULA... how binding is that... my dog isn't even 18 yrs old in dog years (11 weeks old today... almost 4-1/2 pounds). I think the click-through licenses have some minor issues ;-)
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And here I though they had discovered some type of extra-terrestrial life out there... Utlanning, Framling, Ramen, Varelse
Well, sure, if you use *those*... but isn't that considered cheating? We won't all have to wear matching jumpsuits if we get these new storage cubes, will we?
>"New, from IBM! Solid State hard drive cubes, Terrbyte per cubic inch, .005 ns access, 100 gig per second transfer rate,for 10 dollars a cubic inch!"
:)
.005ns access?! I wish my L1/L2 were that fast... it takes longer than that for the signal to get across the board traces
IBM will still do a ton of R&D, since new advances in the storage arena lead to patents, which lead to licensing, which is a big part of IBMs portfolio... The tech development will still exist, just not the product devel and manufacturing (at least, not directly).
For single processor applications, the Athlon can keep pace in many tasks with the POWER-IV, but the Athlon can't match the internal bandwidth of the POWER IV nodes (4/8 proc cores on a module, higher L2 and memory bandwidth, etc). That does, of course, show up in that price tag :-) The other advantage is (as you mentioned) the larger SMP ability of the POWER systems as compared with the Atlhons, but hey - you really need some work to keep 24 nodes of 32 procs each busy.... Fun!.
Nah - 1800 POWER IV procs... now *that* would be some power (pun intended).
Kinda like this one. And that one is still pretty small (only 24 TB of disk, 4 TFLOPS... but *much* better memory/inter-proc bandwidth...
>"Slashdotted"? It's what Yoggi meant when he said, "No one goes there anymore. It's too busy."
FYI: It's "Yogi", not "Yoggi"...
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